ARTIST
PLAYA DEL CARMEN, 2017
This project explores the intersection of mathematics, photography, and philosophy, translating Plato’s Timaeus into conceptual art through a composition of convex polyhedrons. The work captures the variations of the sea under different conditions, guided by mathematical algorithms.
Over a period of 20 months, I took photographs, each representing one of the 20 faces of an icosahedron. The timing for each photo was meticulously determined by decomposing symmetry factors, with eight faces demonstrating tetrahedral symmetry and twelve showing pyritohedral symmetry, leading to 8:12 a.m. as the precise moment for each shot. For 200 days, I windsurfed to a specific location (latitude: 20º, longitude: -87º) to capture the photographs.
This was my graduation project at the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts.
